[17698] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.26: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 23 21:37:54 2000
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:37:50 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200003240237.VAA23324@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Bennett Landman <bennett@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17598] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
You recently reported the following bug:
> What were you trying to do?
> Load the 6.011 Problem set solutions (PDF) in the default netscape.
> What's wrong:
> They won't load. (It shows a blank page.)
> What should have happened:
> They should have loaded.
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> This has happened on many other PDF files. If I use the old version of Netscape (3), then everything works fine.
The acroread plugin is extremely unreliable on all Unix platforms; at
the moment, our only solution is to have people use the helper app
approach instead of the plugin. While the helper app occasionally has
problems too, it seems to be much better than the plugin.
In other words, in your Netscape preferences, your handler for the PDF
file type should not be nppdf.so; instead that setting should point to
an application. The path should be
/mit/acro/arch/@sys/bin/acroread %s
This is the setting used in the global mailcap and mime.types files,
but you may have local, private copies which have different
settings. If you need further details, send me an email. In the mean
time, I'm going to close your bug report.
Good luck,
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
MIT IS/Athena Programmer
